From: Kris Shannon Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:59:44 GMT Subject: RT[0/3]: Some related random thoughts Message-ID: <5d4799ae0504280559109cd00e@mail.gmail.com> I've had a number of thoughts about the "supposed" missing SCM features of git. 1) Alternate Encodings (including on-disk delta compression) If the default objects filename doesn't exist, we can try for other alternative encodings e.g. 00/a29c403e751c2a2a61eb24fa2249c8956d1c80.xdelta which can specify the object content as a delta or other ingenious idea... 2) Rename/Code-movement Tracking (file and/or function) Additional object type tag(s) "rename" which references a changeset and lists the movement metadata 3) SHA1 backwards reference cache Allows quickly finding all commits which reference a given tree root, all/the "rename" for a given commit, all xdeltas which use this blob. There a quite a few important issues with all 3 of these ideas so I thought I would elaborate each in separate emails... (coming soon :) -- Kris Shannon